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Bookmark or Share- Booker T Jones: The Life, Music And Legacy Of The Legendary Stax ... - Dig!Booker T And The MGs’ final Stax single was Melting Pot, issued in 1971. The eight-minute album version, an absolute powerhouse of funk, has been sampled by hip-hop luminaries such as Big Daddy Kane and Roxanne Shanté. It sits alongside the work of Jones’ old schoolfriend, Isaac Hayes, as a glistening, lavish groove.
- Booker T. Jones On New Memoir - NPRNPR's Don Gonyea speaks with musician Booker T. Jones about his life in music and his new memoir, Time is Tight: My Life, Note by Note.
- Booker T. & the M.G.'s - WikipediaBooker T. & the M.G.'s were an American instrumental, R&B, and funk band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1962. The band is considered influential in shaping the sound of Southern soul and Memphis soul. The original members of the group were Booker T. Jones (organ, piano), Steve Cropper (guitar), Lewie Steinberg (bass), and Al Jackson Jr. (drums).
- Booker T. Jones - Time is Tight OUT NOWThe long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music. From Booker T. Jones’s earliest years in segregated Memphis, music was the driving force in his life.
- Booker T. Jones - WikipediaBooker Taliaferro Jones Jr.[1] (born November 12, 1944) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. & the M.G.’s. He has also worked in the studios with many well-known artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, earning him a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement. [2] Biography.
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